Standing water has been in the construction site in the railyard on an ongoing basis for months. Attached are two photos of the same location from October 23, 2011 and from yesterday December 30, 2011. Every time I have walked by the water has been there.

Continued failure of Barclays Arena/ FCR construction flaggers fail to control construction trucks to stay in official staging area until needed. Either the tractor trailer truck entered Pacific street from Carlton Ave (violates non trucking route) or the official arena flaggers again failed to control & released the trucks prematurely into public residential area with no instructions what so ever as to where to go or when to go there.

At about 8:15 am the eastbound lane of Atlantic Avenue was shut down for minutes in order to enable a construction vehicle to back into the arena block. As a result eastbound Atlantic Avenue traffic blocked the Flatbush Avenue intersection causing Flatbush to get backed up as well.
I've attached photos of the construction vehicle entering the arena block (one and two), of the Atlantic Avenue traffic (three) and of the intersection blocked (four). I also photographed the intersection once the eastbound traffic on Atlantic was free to move forward (five).

The floodlights in the Vanderbilt Railyard are being used to extend construction work hours to as late as 11:00 PM many days of the week. In the spring of 2010, LIRR told community members the lights would be used infrequently to enable work that could not be executed in the day while the railyard was operating. At that time there was no mention the lights would be used for construction.

The policy for use of the lights has apparently changed. According to ESDC Project Director Arana Hankin, LIRR and the FCRC contractors working on the Carlton Avenue Bridge are negotiating an agreement for the use of the lights that includes extending construction work hours. The rebuilding of the Carlton Avenue Bridge is not a LIRR project, although its completion is dependent on various elements of railyard construction being finished. The lights are planned to be used until reconstruction of the Carlton Avenue Bridge is complete, which must be prior to the time the arena opens in September 2012. It is unclear to what extent the lights will be used when construction in Vanderbilt Railyard continues with the replacement of the permanent railyard. It is anticipated to be complete in 2016.